It’s really good how heather actually comments on a lot of things when you investigate them instead of vague “you can’t do anything” or “just some x item here” messages. you can go back to the restaurant she fell asleep at at the beginning and she says something like “hell maybe I’m still asleep here” makes her feel like she’s the sh protagonist who is actually least like someone just kind of sleepwalking through a nightmare happening to them
also sh2 on the observation deck at the beginning I ran around trying to determine what was the Objective Truth for playing ps2 games emulated, native res or upscaled and came to no conclusions but kind of leaned towards native res, cause it seemed like upscaling maybe exposed too much, this one I’m only more confused because it just looks too good to ever not play upscaled.
I decided to stream Saints Row The Third and got so embarrassed by how shitty and misogynistic the stuff it plays for laughs is that I bailed and streamed some Manhunter instead.
It’s…still pretty good! I mean, it’s clunky as hell, but I got to a point where I can pretty reliably hop onto low-lying land areas and chomp down on people. I should probably spend more time full exploring the (incredibly easy to get lost in) areas, if only to unlock more of the mutations. Getting a few of those has made the game a lot more fun.
So has anyone played any Valorant? I’m still off any kind of action-focused game due to RSI. I feel like normally I’d have checked it out by now. Its character design seems entirely disconnected from gun design and setting which irks me for some reason. The initial success seems guaranteed by the aggressive marketing push but I don’t really get any sense of identity from it. It just seems to be Counter-Strike with location and vision-based hero abilities. Curious for people’s takes if they’ve played it.
I dropped him and the big wolf spider and I’m out of the underground mall now.
The combo system is great, and something I doubt would happen today with the pure simplicity seen here. No need for on screen combo meters, style points etc, you just trash everything quickly 'cause it feels so good.
yes!!! i’ve been conditioned towards ocd tendencies in stealth games for years and slept on the first game so dishonored 2 was pretty much the first where i was totally comfortable going along with it
i mean, besides mgs5 but i’d sooner file that as an open world toybox game
death of the outsider is better but i’d still say 2 is worth playing
started playing the Final Fantasy IV DS remake again. i’d only played about 4 hours worth of the game when it first came out, and i feel like i should really give it more time, so i started a new game. i think it does a good job of still feeling like FFIV, although truthfully i wish they had done more of a modern balance with it; less random battles, etc.
I agree, the IV remake feels little too retro for its own good. There’s some old-school inconveniences later that I don’t want to spoil that add to the frustration but I think its definitely my favourite of the pre-VI bunch.
As disorienting and messy as Maneater is, it does the one real good thing more open world games should do, where you can go back to earlier parts of the game and just absolutely trounce the enemies (in this case, uh, mostly alligators and some other sharks) that gave you hell hours prior.
i appreciate that heather’s observations and comments are kind of sassy but in a laconic teen way that allows her to retain the sleepwalking affect of earlier silent hill
